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Re: vfork / setsid interaction

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:27:42PM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>Btw, if someone (Joe?) can provide a simple test case demonstrating the
>>problem I'll be happy to fix it.
>
>It's easy to demonstrate; try this:

Thanks for the test case.

I've checked in a fix but it is pretty ugly.  I don't know of any other
way to accomplish what is required for setsid other than to do a fork()
when setsid is called in a "vfork" condition.  So, that's what I did.

I noticed a few other bugs with vfork and fixed them.

I also implemented getsid().  I can't believe that it has been missing
all of this time.

Your test case seems happier (if slower) now.

I'm rebuilding YA snapshot.

cgf
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